River Spirit neurodiversity Despite the scientists’ detailed records

Despite the scientists’ detailed records about many of the plant and animal specimens

ISBN: 9781849355704

A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises

knows the fearsome creatures in her care and paying off her family’s debts to secure their eventual freedom can be her only focus

Eleanor Arnason

River Spirit neurodiversity Despite the scientists’ detailed recordsDescription Leila Aboulela, hailed as a versatile prose stylist (New York Times) has also been praised by J. M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, and Ben Okri, among others, for her rich and nuanced novels depicting Islamic spiritual and political life. Her new novel is an enchanting narrative of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and